If you belong to Generation X , scented
stationeries still sound familiar. Surely, you must have seen your moms’ and
aunts’ love letters on stationeries for often these letters are kept like
sacred relics on finely crafted wooden boxes. Perhaps, you even wrote your
letters on those perfumed linen paper
and sent them as special registered mail (read: snail mail).

Fast forward to Generation
Y. Ask them about scented
stationeries sold at bookstores and they look at you like you’re an alien from
Pluto. A fifty-year distance is distant to teenagers of today. Love whispers
are sent through text messages, video clips and virtual stationeries. The shelf
on the bookstores for stationeries have been replaced with other items. What
happened to the art of letter writing?

The impressive
penmanship referred to by grade school teachers as zaner-bloser writing style is now
replaced by the garbled language of text messaging which make students forget the value of correct spelling. On the
other hand, the e-mail facility has
recaptured the different designs of the linen paper except the scent that transports the letter writer to the romance and magic of love letters. This is not to say that the conditions under which
Generation Y lives have lost the beauty of the art of letter writing forever. Letter writing has taken the route of the
internet. Animated smileys are an added feature to e-mails and photo editor programs, like picnic.com or photoshop, are efficient letter writers' companions.

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franciaonline 6 years agofrom Philippines

It's good to know that you like this hub, Sun-Girl.

Sun-Girl 6 years agofrom Nigeria

Useful and interesting hub which is well shared.

Lita C. Malicdem 7 years agofrom Philippines

If only these youngsters rummage in their oldies' closets, they'll find the letters in stationaties, romantically presented. I don't know why they prefer the jejemon generation(texts not intelligible to olds these days). Don't the teachers teach them correct spelling, much less good letter-writing anymore in school?